The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-20

heavy, if they have to be transported any dis
lance The cost of tho tile itself is not more
than one to three cents per running foot, ao-
cording to SIZE. But, including digging of
ditches laying tiles and cost of tiles, the ex-
pense could not be well brought under thirty
to forty dollars an acre. The distances of the
bitches apart depends partly upon nature of
soil and depth of bitches. 1t varies from
twenty to fifty feet. The closer the texture
of the soil and the shallower the drains, the
smaller the distance apart. A drain
should not be less than three feet deep. Tiles
are manufactured in many places-some in
Georgia-at Athens and at Milledgeyille.
There may be other places nearer to you.
The first cost of drains filed with poles would
be less than those with tile, but the latter is
cheaper in the end. Poles under most favor
able conditions drumming water all the time)
will not last more than fifteen or twenty years
tiles will last indefinitely. When drains are
laid with poles, the latter must be put in very
freely--nearly filling the ditch with them, so
rs to establish great many channels between
them, through which water may find its way
in case one gets filed, another is at hand Put
turf or brush on poles and then fill with dirt,
and jump over with pillow first year, so that the
dirt may become solid over the poles.
w. O. H., Harlem, Ga: Il. How can hogs
be slaughtered and meat preserved for family
use in midsummer?
>. | have n COW with young calf that gives
bloody milk from one teat, and with her pre-
vious calf gave bloody milk from the same.
The milk from the others also, was not suitable
for use; had peculiar taste.
3. 4 mule, apparently sound, about Is years
old, looks fine except in his left hip, which has
HyViY
scarcely puts that foot to the ground, but
moves very sprightly on the other three legs.
Any information rs to these will be thank
fully received.
/. In the large packing establishments of
the west, pork is cured in summer by cooling
and by packing in ice houses Without ice it
is we'll nigh impossible to cure pork in sum-
NOR. Ii killed late in evening, and cut up at
once in small pieces, hung up in a cool place
to get rid OF animal heat, first springling it
with little finely powdered saltpetre, then
putting it in pickle and changing to fresh
pickle in four or five days, it may be cured,
but ii is n risky business. When in pickle it
should be kept in cool cellar.
3 Your COW has inflammation of the udder
(gargct). The udder is divided into four lobes
CORRESPONDING TO the four teats. One lobe may
be intiamed whilst the others are not. In your
case whilst one is decidedly inflamed the 9TH
ers are moro or less so also. See that the calf
has full opportunity 80 get all the milk of the
bag at least twice day, DO not feed cotton
seed, or cotton seed meal; these are disposed
TO stimulate the udder too
much Give little grain of any kind
and let COW run on green pasture, if you have
one.
8. The shrinking away Of mules hip is due
10 its not using the limb. A muscle which is
AT n lxs Oh Is Re
the cause Of its not using the limb, we have
not sufficient data to say, IL may be intlam-
nation in foot md joints from foot to hip. 1t
may be in the hip joint itself. Examine care
fully and see II thSFe is tenderness anywhSre,
and report again.
Subscriber, Copiah county, Mississippi l. /